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Whoops 11.82%
February 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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The initial results were actually published incorrectly. The official results have an even lower share in support of independence (11.52%)
February 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Stop the count!!
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I’m playing the remaster rn ahead of Prime 4, they did a great job. Best way to play metorid prime imo
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I’ve always loved Du Bois’s characterization of Andrew Johnson
The transubstantiation of Andrew Johnson was complete. He had begun as the champion of the poor laborer, demanding that the land monoply of the Southern oligarchy be broken up, so as to give access to the soil, South and West, to the free laborer. He had demanded the punishment of those Southerners who by slavery and war had made such an economic program impossible. Suddenly thrust into the Presidency, he had retreated from this attitude. He had not only given up extravagant ideas of punishment, but he dropped his demand for dividing up plantations when he realized that Negroes would largely be beneficiaries. Because he could not conceive of Negroes as men, he refused to advocate universal democracy, of which, in his young manhood, he had been the fiercest advocate, and made strong alliance with those who would restore slavery under another name. This change did not come by deliberate thought or conscious desire to hurt-it was rather the tragedy of American prejudice made flesh; so that the man born to narrow circumstances, a rebel against economic privilege, died with the conventional ambition of a poor white to be the associate and benefactor of monopolists, planters and slave drivers. In some respects, Andrew Johnson is the most pitiful figure of American history. A man who, despite great power and great ideas, became a puppet, played upon by mighty fingers and selfish, subtle minds; groping, self-made, unlettered and alone; drunk, not so much with liquor, as with the heady wine of sudden and accidental success.
September 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I’ve always loved Du Bois’s characterization of Andrew Johnson
The transubstantiation of Andrew Johnson was complete. He had begun as the champion of the poor laborer, demanding that the land monoply of the Southern oligarchy be broken up, so as to give access to the soil, South and West, to the free laborer. He had demanded the punishment of those Southerners who by slavery and war had made such an economic program impossible. Suddenly thrust into the Presidency, he had retreated from this attitude. He had not only given up extravagant ideas of punishment, but he dropped his demand for dividing up plantations when he realized that Negroes would largely be beneficiaries. Because he could not conceive of Negroes as men, he refused to advocate universal democracy, of which, in his young manhood, he had been the fiercest advocate, and made strong alliance with those who would restore slavery under another name. This change did not come by deliberate thought or conscious desire to hurt-it was rather the tragedy of American prejudice made flesh; so that the man born to narrow circumstances, a rebel against economic privilege, died with the conventional ambition of a poor white to be the associate and benefactor of monopolists, planters and slave drivers. In some respects, Andrew Johnson is the most pitiful figure of American history. A man who, despite great power and great ideas, became a puppet, played upon by mighty fingers and selfish, subtle minds; groping, self-made, unlettered and alone; drunk, not so much with liquor, as with the heady wine of sudden and accidental success.
September 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Aoe2 single player is great, some of the campaigns are really creative. Also I think the first 3 definitive edition expansions are free now
August 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I don't know if Masters of War is the best choice for an FPS game trailer lol
July 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM